Sentences with phrase «because of the common core»

«But I am also very cognizant on a daily basis of the kind of pressures our schools, our students, our teachers are under because of Common Core and these other tremendous sea changes that are being implemented in our schools,» she said.

A lot of focus has been paid to ELA and math because of the Common Core, and I think this document could be a nice companion to the Common Core document.

Because of Common Core, «there's more focus on kids using language to explain their reasoning, construct an argument, and point out evidence in the text,» says Hakuta.

Despite my sympathy for Common Core advocates» position, a change in NAEP should not be made because of Common Core.

When those parents complain to the teachers, and when the teachers say it's because of Common Core and that the Common Core was mandated by some far - away state official (or even the feds, or Bill Gates, or Pearson...), the result is frustration, a feeling of powerlessness, and eventually anger.

Content standards, tests, and curriculum that had been provided by the states — thus far — will now because of Common Core be provided by federally - endorsed national curriculum - content standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content standards.

Loy had decided to pull her daughter out of Pavilion Central Schools because of Common Core.

She used to teach a unit on the legends of King Arthur, but feeling the pressure to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum because of the Common Core, this year she decided to teach a historical document and landed on John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech.

I think because of the Common Core, there's so much attention given to ELA and Math that other subjects are somewhat forgotten.

(This teacher later resigned, because of Common Core.)

Officials told us no additional data would be collected because of Common Core.

We decided to engage in a little data mining of our own: what type and amount of information will the government collect on students and their families, and is because of Common Core?

«Even young teachers are saying, «I need to plan my escape» because of Common Core.

Many people think that «whenever you see something that looks odd, it's because of the Common Core, but that's just not true,» he said.

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We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance councommon sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counCommon Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

That became especially clear during the 2014 legislative session, when Cuomo and lawmakers were faced with significant public unrest over the rollout of the Common Core, a controversy that was politically volatile because the coming elections.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

But, they postponed a vote on a plan to allow teachers who are dismissed to argue that they were unable to teach properly because of inadequate implementation of the Common Core standards.

Tenicka Boyd, the director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY, voiced her support for the Common Core because every student, regardless of their background, will receive the same education.

Tenicka Boyd, the director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY, voiced her support for the Common Core because it meant every student, regardless of their background, would receive the same education:

«We refused the test because we came to the realization that we held in our control the most valuable part of both APPR and the Common Core, my son's data.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

«So there are adjustments that we're making and well continue to make those adjustments, but we're committed to the Common Core, because we know that it's a path to having more of our students prepared for college and career success.

«My position is we need to opt out of Common Core because it's dumbing down education,» Hawkins said.

«It got the name Common Core because 45 states developed these standards over a period of two - and - a-half years.

Senator Gipson told the education commissioner that he'd like to meet some of those people, because he had not heard from anyone with a positive view of the Common Core implementation.

«Schools are being asked to do more with less because of the new Common Core standards,» Mulgrew said.

The proposal aims to provide a «safety net» to educators whose ratings were affected by the rough transition to the Common Core standards in New York and who could be fired because of it.

When you're in a stressed - out state, it's very common to not really have much of an appetite because the blood's going to the extremities and are going away from the core.

But second, I bring it up because we are days away from the end of the 2011 state legislative session, and to my knowledge, not a single law was enacted to block a state from participating in Common Core.

Blended instruction gives students investigation, real - world application, and immediate relevance with each lesson — and even more so because of the educational technology advances that the Common Core will usher in.

In the meantime, states are implementing the common core standards because they are convinced that it is in their best interest, and in the interest of the nation as a whole, for young people to develop the knowledge and skills the standards embody.

Although 20 states had reported decreased or stable budgets for K — 12 education and 28 reported cuts or level funding for state education agencies, only 12 states reported cutting back on common core implementation because of budget constraints.

It can't be blamed on policy changes like No Child Left Behind (NCLB) or Common Core or teacher evaluations, because the upward trend predates all of these policies.

At least I hope that's the case, because we need the support of the teachers if this reform is going to survive politically, and thrive educationally, which — despite today's depressing poll results — I still earnestly believe the Common Core is going to do.

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

Still, the PDK question is of interest, because it tells us that opposition to Common Core is likely to rise if it is perceived as interfering with local curricular decisions.

We have actually moved reasonably close to these changes in some dimensions, partly because of the standards and testing associated with the common core and partly because of the waiver process.

I could not have fulfilled the requirements of my state law by adopting the Common Core because the people of Texas didn't get a seat at that table.

And because all of the states showing strong improvements have adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the authors say there is a strong likelihood that Common Core induced this sudden improvement in the rigor of states» standards.

So, we wanted to have things like common unit lesson plans, we also wanted to develop more of a team culture so that there's more sharing of ideas and more collaboration... But we also wanted to develop resources that could be used within the school and beyond the school, because a lot of our students, we find when they leave us they don't return to any other education environment, they're sort of outside the education system... As part of our intervention we developed a suite of teaching materials around the Certificate I in Core Skills for Employment and Training that can be used widely.

«We are in a new phase because the Common Core, whatever its travails, has only three required texts: the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address,» Allen says.

The Common Core Standards will do nothing to enhance the achievement of students in schools that lack the will or resources needed to deal with a preponderance of kids who can't relate to the importance of school because they don't see it in their own lives.

This insight is no surprise to those of us who have long championed curriculum and rich academic content as ed reform's great un-pulled lever — or who support Common Core simply because it puts curriculum onto the reform agenda.

«They've bought common - core curriculum packages and they are literally scripted — that's terrifying because that's going to suck all the joy of learning away from the kids.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

That's because, for all the colorful commentary, the Common Core is still in the very earliest phases of implementation.

But they can pull out of Common Core — precisely because it's not a federal mandate!

«This is deeply important because there is very little that helps young people, students, and teachers in school that gives them real flesh to the bone of the Common Core standards or any other standards as a statement of what people should know or do,» Seidel says.